Skillsshortages

The use of racial criteria to appoint state employees has caused a massive level of vacancies in state departments, a DA research report has found.

The government is sitting on a ”time bomb” if it does not align education with skills needed by the economy to create jobs, the labour minister says.

The corporate sector is ”lazy” and has given up its role in solving skills shortages, businessman Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday.